Re: booting from the other disk of a RAID-1 (was: Needed: a grub2 expert)

2011-06-28 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach lee [2011.06.28.1115 +0200]: > I'm glad it helped you and Peter. Now the question is how to actually > solve the problem that one can boot from only one of the disks in a > RAID-1 array. The point is to still be able to run the system when a > disk fails. Should the one you boot fro

booting from the other disk of a RAID-1 (was: Needed: a grub2 expert)

2011-06-28 Thread lee
Scott Ferguson writes: > On 28/06/11 05:00, lee wrote: >> martin f krafft writes: >> > > > >> >> He could try to turn off "USB legacy support" in the BIOS. >> >> > > Thank you! > Different issue - but that fixed it! :-) I'm glad it helped you and Peter. Now the question is how to actually

Re: Needed: a grub2 expert

2011-06-27 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 28/06/11 05:00, lee wrote: > martin f krafft writes: > > > He could try to turn off "USB legacy support" in the BIOS. > > Thank you! Different issue - but that fixed it! :-) One machine (Intel whiteboard) would cold boot without issue - but reboots would hang before grub is loaded, unle

Re: Needed: a grub2 expert

2011-06-27 Thread Peter Tenenbaum
That worked, thanks! -PT On Mon, Jun 27, 2011 at 12:00 PM, lee wrote: > martin f krafft writes: > > > also sprach Peter Tenenbaum > [2011.06.26.0227 +0200]: > >> I suppose that is possible. However, the workstation has 2 internal > hard > >> drives (both in the RAID-1 array), 1 internal DVD-

Re: Needed: a grub2 expert

2011-06-27 Thread lee
martin f krafft writes: > also sprach Peter Tenenbaum [2011.06.26.0227 > +0200]: >> I suppose that is possible. However, the workstation has 2 internal hard >> drives (both in the RAID-1 array), 1 internal DVD-ROM player, and the >> external USB hard drive; total of 4. Is there something else

Re: Needed: a grub2 expert

2011-06-25 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Peter Tenenbaum [2011.06.26.0227 +0200]: > I suppose that is possible. However, the workstation has 2 internal hard > drives (both in the RAID-1 array), 1 internal DVD-ROM player, and the > external USB hard drive; total of 4. Is there something else in the system > which can take a

Re: Needed: a grub2 expert

2011-06-25 Thread Tom H
On Sat, Jun 25, 2011 at 2:28 PM, Peter Tenenbaum wrote: > > I'm having a problem with my debian squeeze desktop.  The problem is as > follows: > > I have a system with a software raid-1 root partition (set up with mdadm) > and a non-raid boot partition.  The system uses grub2 as its bootloader. >

Re: Needed: a grub2 expert

2011-06-25 Thread Peter Tenenbaum
I suppose that is possible. However, the workstation has 2 internal hard drives (both in the RAID-1 array), 1 internal DVD-ROM player, and the external USB hard drive; total of 4. Is there something else in the system which can take a drive slot from the BIOS? If not, then 4 slots should be enou

Re: Needed: a grub2 expert

2011-06-25 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Peter Tenenbaum [2011.06.25.2028 +0200]: > Under ordinary circumstances everything works correctly, but when > I have my (non-bootable) Seagate FreeAgent USB hard drive > connected via the front-panel USB port, booting hangs. Your USB drive probably get initialised and takes one of t

Needed: a grub2 expert

2011-06-25 Thread Peter Tenenbaum
I'm having a problem with my debian squeeze desktop. The problem is as follows: I have a system with a software raid-1 root partition (set up with mdadm) and a non-raid boot partition. The system uses grub2 as its bootloader. Under ordinary circumstances everything works correctly, but when I ha